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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
BUSINESS
WITH BUSH. A POINTS OP SUPERIORITY
OF THE
-R. WILL L. BUSH, secretary of the Bush
& Gerts Piano Company, who is known
as a man of keen business ability, sums up the
trade situation in the West in a recent letter to
us as follows:
'' The writer has been away for several weeks
and has just returned ; has covered considerable
territory in Wisconsin and Michigan, and must
confess that in the upper part of these states the
situation is absolutely the worst I have ever
seen. Consignment houses carrying paper from
that section will have a good many slow deals
on hand, and will have to do considerable wait-
AND SWEETNESS of TONE.
ing, or else pull a large number of instruments,
SCIENTIFIC CONSTRUCTION.
as the distress is something terrible in that par-
(THE ONLY STRICTLY
ticular district. In Southern Michigan things
HIGH GRADE PIANO
are in better shape, and there is some business
MANUFACTURED
being done. The same is true of Southern Wis-
IN CHICAGO.)
consin, and in spite of the general dullness
through the country, we believe that trade has
reached its minimum, and will grow somewhat
better from now on, although the re-action is
going to be slow, and business will be conducted
SOLE FACTORS.
on a more careful and conservative basis than it
has been for years past.
(The Largest Dealers in Pianos and Organs in the World,)
With best wishes, congratulating you upon
the continued brightness and newsy nature of
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL WAREROOMS,
the TRADE REVIEW, and assuring you that the
Bush & Gerts piano is still holding its own, and (SECOND FLOOR.)
215 WABASH AVE.,
accomplishing wonders in the way of additional
CHICAGO.
popularity and prominence.''
Celebrated
"Conover"
Pianos.
CHICAGO COTTAGE ORGAN COMPANY,
RECENT U£GAU
JJECISIONS.
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS—ACCOMMODATION—
INDORSEMENT—AGENCY—DIRECTING VERDICT.
Enterprising dealers all over the Country are
fast securing the agency for the wonderful
A.
B.
CHASE
PIANOS.
1. If one affixes his signature to a printed
blank for a promissory note, and intrusts it to
another for the purpose of having the blanks
filled up, and thus becoming a party to a negoti-
able instrument, he thereby confers the right,
and such instrument carries on its face an im-
plied authority, to fill up the blanks and com-
plete the contract at pleasure, so far as is con-
sistent with its printed words.
2. As to all purchasers for value without
notice, the person to whom a blank note is thus
intrusted must be deemed the agent of the
signer; and an oral agreement between such
principal and agent, limiting the amount for
which the note shall be perfected, cannot affect
the rights of an indorsee who takes the note be-
fore maturity for value, in ignorance of such
agreement, with a different amount written in
it.
3. Proof of fraud in the inception of the note
undoubtedly casts upon the indorsee the burden
of showing that he took it for value before ma-
turity without notice of the fraud ; but proof
The Company Scrupulously protect their
that he paid full value for the note before
agencies,
maturity raises a presumption that he purchased
and
it in good faith without notice of the fraud.
Never change when it can be avoided.
4. The court may properly instruct the jury Hence the agency becomes more valuable
to return a verdict for either party when it is
every year.
apparent that a contrary verdict could not be
If
y«u
can,
you
should secure it at once,
sustained.
by writing to
Market & Fulton National Bank v. Sargent,
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, March 16th,
1893.
in relation to letters patent, jurisdiction exists
in the state courts, although the validity of the
patent may arise incidentally ; that the question
of ownership, legal or equitable, of the letters-
patent or of an interest in the invention does
not necessarily involve the validity of the patent
or its infringement, or deprive the state courts
of jurisdiction ; that injunction will lie to pre-
vent one from making false and malicious
claims of title to letters-patent and threats to
collect royalties from and involve in litigation
for infringement customers of the owner of the
letters-patent, which materially affect the pro-
perty rights of the owner in the letters-patent
and in the articles manufactured under them,
by deterring purchasers, particularly where the
person making such claims is insolvent, and
that the state courts have jurisdiction of the suit
for injunction, but that only one change of judge
is allowable under the statute, while the ap-
pointment of an attorney formerly connected
with a branch of the litigation to be tried, as
special judge, may be an impropriety, it is not
ground for another change.
INSOLVENT—CREDITOR—PETITION.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota held, in the
case of Nicolin vs. Welland et al., that any
person to whom an insolvent is actually in-
debted is a creditor within the meaning of
General Laws ot 1889, chapter 30, section 6, an
amendment to the insolvency act of 1881, and
such creditor need not file his claim with the
assignee or receiver in order to take part in
proceedings therein provided for to remove such
assignee or receiver ; that a petition under that
statute is properly heard upon order to show
cause, and that at the hearing the court may
ascertain through competent proofs and deter-
mine as a fact whether a majority of the
creditors, in number and in amount, have signed
the petition.
"It is conceded upon all hands that Lyon & Healy have
won the greatest victory of any house in the music line."—
New York Times.
Wonderful in Tone Quality.
Wonderful in Selling Qualities,
Style, Finish, Strength,
Action, Durability and Popularity,
and
Improvement of Tone by Age and Use.
LETTERS PATENT—JURISDICTION—INJUNCTION.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in the
case of Shoemaker vs. The South Bend Spark
Arrester Company, that where a cause of action
rests primarily upon some contract of the parties
THE A. B. CHASE CO.,
NORWALK, OHIO.
The house of Lyon & Healy secured honors at
the World's Fair that are entirely unprecedented,
no less than twelve Diplomas and Medals of the
highest class being awarded to the musical instru-
ments produced by their factories. This number
of awards has never been even approached by any
other music house, nor has any previous World's
Pair ever bestowed such recognition to the prod-
ucts of one firm